# Autonomous Vehicles

> The autonomous-vehicle industry builds self-driving systems for ride-hailing, trucking, and delivery. It recruits ML and robotics researchers from academia and partners with university labs on perception, prediction, and safety-validation research.

*Source: [https://selltoscientists.com/industries/autonomous-vehicles/](https://selltoscientists.com/industries/autonomous-vehicles/)*

**Market size:** $210B
**Target researcher profile:** ML and robotics researchers in perception, prediction, planning, sensor fusion, and safety validation

## Use cases

- Perception and planning R&D recruitment
- University autonomy-lab partnerships
- Simulation and validation development
- End-to-end driving talent pipeline
- Sensor-fusion technology collaborations

## Representative companies

- Waymo
- Cruise
- Aurora Innovation
- Zoox
- Wayve
- Nuro
- Mobileye
- Pony.ai
- Kodiak Robotics
- Applied Intuition